ENDA Episode 87 → The time when ENDA faces a Logo Replacement shot (Part 4)
Drawing on techniques I picked up years ago as a Texture Artist, I built a custom weathering pass with different alphas to give a more photorealistic look...
While refining details for a big breakdown, ENDA hit pause to appreciate a newly acquired compositing skill: injecting just the right amount of imperfection.
Replacing a logo isn’t simply a color tweak and calling it a day.
You have to weave in the quiet details that tell a story: paper that’s sun-bleached in patches, edges that lift and curl, fingerprints where curious hands brushed past, tiny bubbles trapped under cheap glue, highlights that change with every shift of ambient light. In short, you’re recreating the entire life of the object: its wear, its environment, its history of human touch.
These posters sit on a wall outside an underground music club. That alone dictates their look: bargain-bin paper stock, pigments already drifting toward pastel, surface grime from hundreds of late-night crowds, and the inevitable ripples of a hurried paste-up.
Drawing on techniques I picked up years ago as a Texture Artist, I built a custom weathering pass with different alphas to give a more photorealistic look, so the new artwork feels every bit as battered as its neighbors.
The next step? Refining some lighting details and the completion of that full-length breakdown that’s still in the works.
So… stay tuned!
The journey continues…
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